Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteM to Quark's@startrek.website • 5 months ago‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’external-linkmessage-square6 fedilinkarrow-up118
arrow-up118external-link‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteM to Quark's@startrek.website • 5 months agomessage-square6 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareValue Subtracted@startrek.websitehexagonMhexbear5·5 months agoI'm not familiar with Venus Prime - it's apparently based on the short story Breaking Strain, which has been spun into a novel series by Paul Preuss. linkfedilink
minus-squareCorgana@startrek.websitehexbear3·5 months agoThank you for posting this. I am a big Arthur C Clarke fan and had never heard of it, and my google-fu turned up nothing. linkfedilink
minus-squareStillPaisleyCat@startrek.websitehexbear2·5 months ago‘Venus Prime’ is the way the novelizations were branded and marketed starting with the first book ‘Breaking Strain’ in 1987. As you can see from the cover image, it was an early example of the ‘hot babe with powers’ marketing approach. *removed externally hosted image* linkfedilink
minus-squareValue Subtracted@startrek.websitehexagonMhexbear2·5 months agoBrannon Braga, eat your heart out! linkfedilink
minus-squareStillPaisleyCat@startrek.websitehexbear2·5 months agoHer hair even goes white-blond as of book 2. LOL I have observed elsewhere that no women are announced in the creative team. I hope they get a strong female-presenting A-list lead who insists on EP status. *removed externally hosted image* linkfedilink
I'm not familiar with Venus Prime - it's apparently based on the short story Breaking Strain, which has been spun into a novel series by Paul Preuss.
Thank you for posting this. I am a big Arthur C Clarke fan and had never heard of it, and my google-fu turned up nothing.
‘Venus Prime’ is the way the novelizations were branded and marketed starting with the first book ‘Breaking Strain’ in 1987.
As you can see from the cover image, it was an early example of the ‘hot babe with powers’ marketing approach.
*removed externally hosted image*
Brannon Braga, eat your heart out!
Her hair even goes white-blond as of book 2. LOL
I have observed elsewhere that no women are announced in the creative team. I hope they get a strong female-presenting A-list lead who insists on EP status.
*removed externally hosted image*